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The white Beaux-Arts-style building in Baltimore's Mount Vernon neighborhood, known simply as 700 Washington Place, is considered by many as one of the city's most elegant addresses. Julie Canard, a Washington native, was smitten by what she describes as "the richness and beauty of Mount Vernon's architecture and European influence" every time she passed the apartment house on her way to visit her daughter in Guilford. According to the nonprofit Baltimore Heritage, 700 Washington Place was built in 1835. William Cochran, a wealthy Baltimore resident, bought the vacant mansion at the northwest corner of the Washington Monument in 1905, a year after the Great...

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The white Beaux-Arts-style building in Baltimore's Mount Vernon neighborhood, known simply as 700 Washington Place, is considered by many as one of the city's most elegant addresses.
Julie Canard, a Washington native, was smitten by what she describes as...

The main drag outside this former general store in the homey waterfront community of Havre de Grace — a short hop off U.S. 40 north of Baltimore — is drenched in Americana.
Antiques shops and local art galleries dominate the street, clustered behind...

A good deal of blood was spilled on both sides. … It was one battle from the President Street Depo —- to the Camden Street depot — I can say no more.
Baltimorean Catherine N. Smith, April 1861
One week after the bloodless bombardment and...

The helmet looks much the way it did when Morris Hunt wore it into a burning building on Leadenhall Street in the summer of 1965. He managed to get out, but he didn't survive.His daughter, Drue Jenkins, came to the Baltimore Fire Museum in the old station...

Business entrepreneur and philanthropist William Polk Carey, who donated more than $100 million to Maryland schools and universities, spent most of his life outside the state, but he never stopped thinking of himself as a Baltimorean.
Mr. Carey, 81, died...

The Rev. Emora Brannan, retired pastor of Grace United Methodist Church, in Homeland, stood Sunday at Charles and Fayette streets, visualizing the raging fire that roared through the intersection more than a century ago.Brannan also visualized a scene...

Hessie Abraham Davidson, former chairman of the Davidson Transfer & Storage Co., who counted among his many interesting and challenging moving jobs overseeing the moving of the U.S. Constitution, died Sept. 18 of complications from a stroke at...

James "Jimmie" Judd, a well-known antiques dealer recalled for his elaborate homes and discerning eye for art, died of prostate cancer Thursday at his Inner Harbor home. He was 82.Born in Baltimore and raised on East North Avenue at Collington...

More than 260 Howard County middle and high school students participated in the county’s ninth annual History Day Competition on Saturday, March 16, presenting their historical research that related to the theme “Turning Points in History: People,...

See how firemen fought the third worst fire in U.S. history when you take the Great Baltimore Fire of 1904 Motor Coach Tour. Given during the 109th Anniversary Weekend on Feb. 10, from 1 to 4:15 p.m., the tour will travel through Baltimore's...

Travel through Baltimore's "Burnt District" with the Fire Museum of Maryland and see how firemen fought the third worst fire in U.S. history. The Great Baltimore Fire of 1904 motor coach tour is Feb. 10, from 1 to 4:15 p.m., on the 109th...

Chesapeake Shakespeare Company is following through on the Bard's famous statement that all the world is a stage. As if it weren't enough that this Ellicott City-based theater company already uses various Howard County sites for its indoor productions,...

Samuel L. "Sandy" Frank, a retired Baltimore clothing manufacturer executive and World War II veteran, died Feb. 28 from cancer at his Roland Park Place home.
The former longtime Mount Washington resident was 92.
The son of Henry Frank, who...

Baltimore's sprawling harbor and miles of Patapsco River shoreline have been the scene of emergencies, near escapes and outright tragedy.
Baltimore's fireboats handle an average of 97 calls a year, most during the summer. A smaller vessel, Fire Rescue...